Andersonville

Georgia · USA · Cemetery

Thirteen thousand Union prisoners died here in fourteen months. The cemetery closes at five, and this account comes from a couple who were leaving.

Andersonville in Georgia was the worst prison camp of the American Civil War. In fourteen months around forty five thousand Union prisoners passed through it and nearly thirteen thousand died, of starvation, dysentery, exposure and untreated wounds, in a stockade with no shelter and one fouled stream for water.

They are buried here, shoulder to shoulder in trenches, and the headstones stand almost touching each other across acre after acre.

The account was given by a woman to a Confederate re enactor at the museum. She and her husband had been leaving the cemetery, which closes at five, and she took one last look across the graves.

What she saw is the account.

The camp commandant was tried and hanged after the war, the only man executed for war crimes in that conflict.

It is a national historic site and a national cemetery, and it is still used for burials.

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